EAW051172 ENGLAND (1953). The High Street and city centre, Exeter, 1953
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Details
| Title | [EAW051172] The High Street and city centre, Exeter, 1953 |
| Reference | EAW051172 |
| Date | 6-August-1953 |
| Link | |
| Place name | EXETER |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 292269, 92760 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -3.5264358342212, 50.723890507361 |
| National Grid Reference | SX923928 |
Pins
 32 Chute Street, my birthplace June 1941, which apart from a few rattled window panes and soot from the chimney suffered no damage in the war.
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 Chas Drown |
Wednesday 22nd of January 2020 03:18:53 PM |
| Express & Echo building (Not the other pin further up) |
 Scooby |
Friday 17th of January 2020 04:23:21 PM |
| St Marks church |
joepettetsmith |
Thursday 20th of October 2016 07:02:09 PM |
| The City Swimming Baths, now Pyramids Leisure Centre |
markypiper |
Saturday 21st of November 2015 08:58:42 PM |
| Motor Macs Garage. |
 Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:32:09 PM |
| Site of Hughes Garage |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:30:43 PM |
| I remember seeing a dead whale on display in an articulated lorry trailer here in the mid fifties. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:29:08 PM |
| This became the Express & Echo (Northcliffe) building site, Exeter's evening paper, now printed just once a week in Plymouth. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:27:49 PM |
| I believe that this was a Regent Battery sign. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:25:53 PM |
| The site of Exeter's tallest building completed some six years later. Originally Bobby's, then Debenhams and now John Lewis. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:25:05 PM |
| Buildings side on to Martin's Lane in the course of construction. Recently occupied by Barratt's shoe shop. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 03:23:20 PM |
| Odeon cinema. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:27:02 PM |
| Eveleigh's garage. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:25:44 PM |
| Colson's now Dingles (House of Fraser) has been rebuilt. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:20:11 PM |
| Great to see the modern embryo city taking shape. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:19:05 PM |
| Roman city wall. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:18:18 PM |
| The Clifton Inn which survived the blitz whilst everything twenty feet opposite was destroyed (a road of terrace houses)which just shows how indiscriminate and luck of the draw bombing is. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 12:17:10 PM |
| Summerland Street where my mother's house was destroyed by bombing and her brother killed. Now a car park. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:40:28 AM |
| I remember this bomb site and the hoardings into the late fifties. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:27:51 AM |
| Savoy cinema. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:25:48 AM |
| Marks and Spencer new 1950's store. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:25:05 AM |
| It's interesting to see that these bombed out houses in Dix's Field still haven't been demolished. Could they have been saved? |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:03:10 AM |
| The outline of the old Bedford Circus can be clearly seen. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:01:12 AM |
| The new rebuilt city centre as we know it nowadays is beginning to take shape some eleven years after destruction. |
Allen T |
Thursday 27th of November 2014 11:00:28 AM |